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Lot description
ALEXANDRE CLERGET (France, 1856-1931), Blotter with Sculpture. Art Nouveau, ca.1900. Gilded bronze. Signed and numbered. With foundry stamp. Shows wear. Measurements: 10 x 13 x 6,5 cm. Blotter with the handle in the form of modernist sculpture worked in round bulk representing a dancer whose dress undulates like a conch shell at its ends, printing to the figure a movement and modeling characteristic of Art Nouveau. Born in Saint-Palais, Alexandre Clerget was a student of the sculptor Alexandre Falguiére (1831-1900). He exhibited at the Salon from 1889 to 1924, showing numerous busts in bronze and plaster and exhibiting several bronze sculptures from 1902. Most of his works were cast by the Siot-Decauville foundry, one of the most active casters and dealers of Art Nouveau bronze works in the early twentieth century; several of his works were also made by the Sévres factory in Sévres, France. Wear and tear.